The recent Appellate Body decision rejects Brazil's claims related to the core concepts of dumping, injury and causal link between dumping and injury.

calls for the early submission and adoption of adequate legislative proposals such that guarantees of basic rights are in place by the date of accession of the new Member States and at least by June 2004, and in particular urges the Commission to finalise, as soon as possible, a framework decision on procedural safeguards for suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union; also calls for a "EuroRights" body of independent defence practitioners in criminal law to be set up under the aegis of the European Parliament to monitor the observance of legal and fair trial rights across the EU, including the Charter ...[+++] of Fundamental Rights, and to advise the Commission, Parliament and Council on development of new EU measures;

As a result of the questions raised about the effectiveness of safety inspections in Community ports following the Erika accident, a great deal of support was voiced for creating a European coastguard or a European Maritime Safety Agency.

We should like the Commission to produce a follow-up report on the impact of the recommendation and to do everything in its power to convince the Member States that, in line with this legal measure, they should establish out-of-court settlement bodies in order to apply the principle of 'a single post office box' to which consumers could direct their complaints.

Last June the EU put flesh on the bones of this idea, calling for the creation of a framework in which all WTO countries could eventually adopt and enforce their own competition rules along commonly agreed principles.